Introduction.
Hi there!
How wonderful is it, being able to welcome you on my website. I'm glad that I've somehow driven your attention, otherwise you probably wouldn't be here ain't I right? Perhaps we've met in real life, perhaps you've heard of my journey from someone nearby, or perhaps you ended up on this site completely by accident. Anyway, for now I would like to take the possibility to let me introduce myself to you. If you already know me, or introductions aren't your thing, feel free to scroll a bit further down into the news.
My name is Freerk Blom. A watersport enthusiast from Hindeloopen, which is a small city in the dutch province called Friesland. I'm currently twenty years young, and two years ago I graduated on 'Atheneum' level in high school. This finally lifted a big weight of my shoulders. Luckily I've always had sports during the sometimes harsh periods in school, exercise has always made me feel better.
In the last two years of high school I started windfoiling. Of course something really new for me at that time, because I'd only done freestyle, wave and freeride windsurfing for the past five years. A foil was totally new for me, just like it had been to any windsurfer at a certain point. Watching increasingly more reels on instagram about this windfoiling thing, my attention was caught and I created the opportunity to hop on such a windfoiling set. Those first meters of foiling marked the start of an additional path besides 'normal windsurfing' as a common thread trough my youth. An addiction to the silent flying and the speed that can be achieved in really light winds. In addition to windsurfing, ice-skating, sailing, race biking and football, also windfoiling was added to the list of beloved sports. Despite my wallet wasn't too happy, I was more than pleased and grateful to welcome this new sport into my life in the summer of '20.
Now a couple of years later, a lot has happened. I already had made a few steps into the more professional career that lies ahead for some of the iQFOiL-athletes in the Olympic programme. The iQFOiL Class was elected as new Olympic class to replace the old fashioned RS:X for Paris 2024. By being able to train with the RTC Almere and soon after being invited into the NTT, (RTC and NTT abbreviations are made clear in the news items.) I've already had a reasonable period in my two years of windfoiling, in the youth training teams of the 'Watersportverbond'. Sailing a World Championship and an European Championship is already on the resume, and in 2022 I was very excited to add the titles: Dutch Champion Marathon and bronze at the Dutch Championships Courserace. These facts show my steep learning curve, and I would like to continue this upward trend. I'll keep pushing to become better and the results that come with it will be undoubtedly addictive, because winning is the best feeling there is.
Now that you've gotten to know me a little better, I would like to thank you for your interest and I hope that, perhaps already after reading the introduction or later on after viewing the rest of the website, you will also become as fascinated as me about this beautiful spectacular sport. Or a more achievable goal: even if I get you a tiny little bit more interested in windsurfing, that would be terrific!
Hope to see you soon, and preferably on the water!
With very kind regards,
Freerk Blom